Chapter Seventy-Three: The Night Banquet at the Palace
The atmosphere in the royal capital has not been silenced by the end of the athletic convention, and the residents of the royal capital are still talking about the athletic tournament and the champion knight William in their spare time.
The competition not only promoted the activity of the royal capital, but during this time, the commercial activities of the royal capital also became much more active, and many people started to buy and sell shrewdly during this period, coupled with the policy of encouraging commerce in the kingdom of Cikma, so that the merchants of the royal capital turned a lot of money.
William asked his subordinates to sell all the war horses during this time, and the price of a hundred silver coins was still in short supply, and 60,000 silver coins quietly arrived in William's pocket.
In the evening, a valet, led by two guards, went to William's residence to deliver the news of the palace dinner tonight.
William packed everything up early and got ready, which is the treatment that previous champion knights have had.
William straightened his clothes, took his saber with him, gave Banstedsk a note, and walked out of the room in good spirits.
As night came, the streets looked much more depressed, and the almond sellers returned to their lodgings, except for a few patrols who walked along the road, and the middle and high nobles who had rushed to the palace.
There are many carriages and horses in front of the palace, and nobles of this rank basically have their own carriages.
William walked into the glittering palace hall illuminated by oil lamps, and many people recognized William, although they were noble, but they still showed a kind smile to the champion knight.
The servants walked through the crowd, and they laid all kinds of things on the table, oil lamps, honey, cheese, fruits, wines, meats, and spices.
Although the royal family lost 400,000 silver coins, it was a bit tight, but the accumulation over the years still made the royal family's handiwork rich.
The nobles wore their most splendid clothes and talked, and the class division in the palace was the most serious at this time, several dukes talked together, the counts chatted together, and as for the viscount class, they were divided into small groups to communicate.
As for William, the baron, he is not even qualified to enter the palace, and he can only enter the palace after the title of champion knight.
He was treated the same as nine others, who were among the top ten in the athletic tournament and had been arranged to be recruited by the nobles.
Even if they each had a feudal monarch before they came, they could still accept the solicitation of the great nobles, not to mention one or two wandering knights who did not have a feudal monarch.
Except, of course, for the three royal knights of the ten.
In fact, knights with only one body of force were not recruited by the nobles, and they were more symbolically recruited to encourage more wandering knights to participate in athletic tournaments or serve them.
A small nobleman with strength and fiefdom like William is the one who is really worthy of their wooing, but there is no need to think about it, of course William refused one by one.
Just kidding, I finally got acquainted with the earl, and I took a lot of credit, and William's brain went into water to mess with a nobleman he didn't know?
William, who was unfamiliar with the place, had to sit alone on a chair in the hall, silently watching the nobles around him who were greeting each other.
It has to be said that it is indeed a bit embarrassing for a person to mix into a class that does not belong to him, like William.
But fortunately, there were nine people with the same fate as him, and among those nine people, except for three royal knights and one knight with a feudal lord, the remaining five people were all recruited by various nobles, and when the banquet was over, they would officially pledge their allegiance to their respective feudal lords.
With a commotion at the door, the ladies of the aristocratic families began to enter, they were of different ages, some were young and beautiful, some were old, some had their own children, and some were unmarried noble ladies.
Without exception, they wore their most gorgeous clothes and attended this banquet in full costume, to be honest, William was really not interested in the makeup they painted like ghosts, and that ghost appearance was really not suitable for the youth of the Celestial Empire.
But alas, there are always some girls who shine in William's eyes.
"Excuse me, Baron William, my name is Visy, daughter of Viscount Sambuken, and you really look very heroic today!" A ghost-like aristocratic lady in make-up begins to strike up a conversation with William.
This kind of banquet is often a good opportunity for lonely ladies to find sexual encounters, and their husbands often cannot satisfy them for various reasons, so banquet spring hunting has become the choice of many lonely ladies.
However, this Vicie is obviously not this kind of person, and she can see that she keeps glancing behind her, which is probably what her father or mother meant.
"Thank you for your compliment, Ms. Vessy, you look ...... today It's beautiful! William complimented him against his will, and under the cover of this makeup, William couldn't see what her face looked like.
"I heard that your life was very miserable, and you were kicked out of your home by your brother, right?"
"Yes, Lady Vessy!" William replied without hesitation.
"That's really pitiful, it's really hard to imagine what kind of hardship you have suffered to grow into a nobleman who is brave and wise, and has a rich territory!" Vesy said with a somewhat pretentious gesture.
"Lady Weixi Liao praised, ah, I'm sorry I have to accompany me, my feudal lord is calling me!" William said apologetically and quickly got out of here.
In fact, the Earl was really calling William, and he seemed to see that William was a little troubled by the woman, so he waved his hand at William.
"How's Vixi? What is Baron William's impression of you? After William left, a noblewoman who looked to be about thirty or forty years old, wearing the same makeup as Vicie, came to Vicie's side and asked with concern.
"It's okay, but the two of us didn't talk a few words before he was called away by his feudal lord!" Vesy's eyes were all on William's body, blonde hair and blue eyes, and the tall William made her heart no longer fit anyone else.
William was very grateful for the Earl's summoning at this time, William had been harassed four times by these ladies in more than an hour, if it wasn't for the Earl's call to him, it is estimated that he would still be arguing with the ghost-like Lady Vicsy.
"What's the matter? Lord Earl? William arrived at the Earl's circle, nodded like the surrounding nobles, and then asked the Earl.
"It's nothing, it's just that these adults want to meet you, this fox from Denlenburg!" The Earl said with a smile.
"This is our famous Fox of Denlenburg, who has played a great role in our war against the Chekels, and has been made a baron by me."
The earl proudly introduced to the surrounding nobles that William's ability to have such a record had nothing to do with his insight into heroes.
"You look really strong, but I heard you've been a robber before, right? Don't take it personally, I'm just asking, I've heard those troubadours say that, but I'm curious about you, where does you get so much knowledge? ”
"This is the Earl of Creman, and we were very good playmates in the early years, and now this old fellow is with me to support His Majesty! And all of you here, all of you are die-hard supporters of Your Majesty in the past, and they are all my old friends! The Earl introduced William, telling him that he had a good relationship with these individuals and that he didn't need to be too outside.
As soon as William heard the earl say this, he immediately understood that this was most of his own people, and if other nobles who had a bad relationship with the earl asked so bluntly, it would be a bit provocative.
"Don't tell you, my lord, back then, because I was forced by life, I had to be a robber for more than half a year, and I was trained from a weak teenager to a warrior."
The nobles listened quietly to William's recounts of the past, and they showed great interest in the number one baron under the Count of Loire.
As my father's second son, I had no combat training, my father's original intention was to send me to a monastery to become a monk, but my ambition was not here, so although I did not receive combat training, I nestled in the storeroom and looked at books that were usually unattended, from which I gained the extraordinary wisdom of the ancients, as well as the war narratives of distant empires."
William talked eloquently, this set of rhetoric did not hesitate for half a minute, that sentence is right, a lie said a hundred times is the truth, and said ten thousand times is the truth.
Now William has no flaws in these lies, and tells this tragic experience that does not exist.